>>10379021Hasbro has the license for 6" mass market action figures for 5 years. Licenses are pretty specific in that regard and by not releasing the promised amount of action figures per year, they pay a penalty fee AND the promised amount of royalties per year. After a certain amount of time without releasing shit, the license can be stripped AND Hasbro has to pay the penalty fees again.
Licenses can be pretty complex and have a mountain of stipulations and clauses. So maybe what i said isn't true, but that's generally how licenses work. A company like Epic would be pretty fucking retarded to allow a company just to license shit and not do anything with it.
That's a ton of money potentially being lost if it's not used and Epic isn't run by retards. So if Hasbro doesn't release anything in 2023 (or 2024), the license will eventually be up for grabs again. Whether someone picks it up, who knows, since the line did bomb twice already.
Jazwares and McFarlane both quit making large scale Fortnite toys due to poor sales. Hasbro took over for Jazwares and no one has picked up the collectors market license after McFarlane ditched it.
>>10379046Announcing a line is dead is bad press. No company wants to admit they failed at something, hence some companies going full retard, like LucasFilm continuing to make movies based on the sequels that pretty much killed Star Wars as a golden goose.
That said, it's possible the line isn't dead. Since there was no Toy Fair in February, they might just announce something at SDCC or Toy Fair in September (august? October?).
